How many km per tank?

[apteryx_haasti]

I would really suggest letting your bike run to reserve on purpose at least once. Then you know *exactly* what it feels like, and what to do.

Yeah, I might try that when I've had it a bit longer...better make darn sure I know where the petrol station is, though, huh?

[ZeroIndex]

Yeah, I might try that when I've had it a bit longer...better make darn sure I know where the petrol station is, though, huh?

you'll have at least 50km to find one.. shouldn't be difficult.. if you're out in the middle of nowhere, just go easier on the gas when on reserve.. that happened on my way to Turangi a while back..

[John Banks]

better make darn sure I know where the petrol station is, though, huh?

Nah. Makes for good exercise every now and again.

[ZeroIndex]

Nah. Makes for good exercise every now and again.

that happened when I first started working at DX-Mail.. had a crappy Hyosung FX110, the petrol gauge didn't work, and it didn't have a reserve tap.. spent quite a bit of time pushing it around.. longest push was approx 2km..

[John Banks]

See? Didnae do ye nought wrong, that.

[Fatjim]

I got 873k on the last tank and the warning light hadn't gone on yet. Cost $69 to fill.

Peugeot 306 TD.

[XP@]

I would really suggest letting your bike run to reserve on purpose at least once. Then you know *exactly* what it feels like, and what to do.

Urr... if you really want to know what it feels like then turn the tap to the OFF position then set-off. a few hundred meters down the road you will find out exactly what happens. you can then practice turning the tap to on.. or reserve.

On realy common mistake is turning the tap from on to off (instead of reserve), then wondering why you are still in the right hand lane and slowing down.

LEARN your tap positions for each bike you ride.

[ZeroIndex]

Urr... if you really want to know what it feels like then turn the tap to the OFF position then set-off. a few hundred meters down the road you will find out exactly what happens. you can then practice turning the tap to on.. or reserve.

On realy common mistake is turning the tap from on to off (instead of reserve), then wondering why you are still in the right hand lane and slowing down.

LEARN your tap positions for each bike you ride.

my tap is damn huge.. sits on the side of the petrol tank.. only problem is you can't turn it properly while moving

[Ixion]

Urr... if you really want to know what it feels like then turn the tap to the OFF ,,.

Many bikes, of course, do not have an off position for the tap, having those rather annoying diaphragm thingies instead.

[Ixion]

Best bike I ever had for fuel arrangments was an old Briddish one (can't remember which now). Had the old arrangment with two taps, one each side. Idea was , that the tank had the usual "saddle" down the underside where it fitted around the frame top tube. You ran on tap A until it ran out. Meanwhile the "saddle" had kept the petrol in the lower tank on the other side from being used. So you turned that tap on , and away you went. I modified this by replacing the standard "on-off" taps on each side with "on -off-reserve" taps, the ones with a second longer pipe. So I had main tank, first reserve, second reserve, and oh-shit-emergency reserve. Hard to forget all of them.

The advantage of a "turn off for off" tap, rather than a diaphragm, is that you are hardly likely to forget to turn the tap back to main from reserve when refueling. Which is uncomfortably easy to do with the diaphragm type, leading to *very* bad language some miles down the road.

(Shouldn't knock the reliability of the diaphragms I guess. After all , if diaphragms were reliable, a good many of our members might not be here )

[ZeroIndex]

Best bike I ever had for fuel arrangments was an old Briddish one (can't remember which now). Had the old arrangment with two taps, one each side. Idea was , that the tank had the usual "saddle" down the underside where it fitted around the frame top tube. You ran on tap A until it ran out. Meanwhile the "saddle" had kept the petrol in the lower tank on the other side from being used. So you turned that tap on , and away you went. I modified this by replacing the standard "on-off" taps on each side with "on -off-reserve" taps, the ones with a second longer pipe. So I had main tank, first reserve, second reserve, and oh-shit-emergency reserve. Hard to forget all of them.

The advantage of a "turn off for off" tap, rather than a diaphragm, is that you are hardly likely to forget to turn the tap back to main from reserve when refueling. Which is uncomfortably easy to do with the diaphragm type, leading to *very* bad language some miles down the road.

(Shouldn't knock the reliability of the diaphragms I guess. After all , if diaphragms were reliable, a good many of our members might not be here )

that sounds too complex.. and what if you forget to set one of them back from reserve to on.. that could spell disaster.. or a very long push..

[Ixion]

that sounds too complex.. and what if you forget to set one of them back from reserve to on.. that could spell disaster.. or a very long push..

No, cos I had always to switch both off anyway. And if I forgot to switch one off, it just meant that the reserve tap changed to the "off" one. Always one off.

[ZeroIndex]

No, cos I had always to switch both off anyway. And if I forgot to switch one off, it just meant that the reserve tap changed to the "off" one. Always one off.

exactly.. I'm even more confused than I was before..

[John Banks]

Let me draw a diagram for you, Zero Index:

\____/_-----Oooo
o{}..--/--__----_
uuu///____//-----
\\____///---^^^
//\\^__---^##^
ooo&&@uuuu__%%

Hope that clears up any confusion.

[ZeroIndex]

Let me draw a diagram for you, Zero Index:

\____/_-----Oooo
o{}..--/--__----_
uuu///____//-----
\\____///---^^^
//\\^__---^##^
ooo&&@uuuu__%%

Hope that clears up any confusion.

HAHAHA, WTF, have some green rep for confusing me / making me laugh